Are your kids game players?
Ours definitely are, especially Little J who asks hourly to play the SAME games! I’m not joking. Really.
We love the family together time that games bring and here are our…
Top Ten Games We Play with the Kids!
1. Hisss – This is a great color-matching and strategy game that both of our children enjoy! Little J (almost three) asks to play this morning, noon and night.
2. Don’t Break the Ice – If only it wasn’t such a pain to set-up…but the boys love to hammer and are learning to be careful as they play!
3. Memory – {any kind, but we have Toy Story 3} Big J gets this, but Little J just likes the pictures! He is learning as he watches us play – I think!
4. SlapJack – Oh, the fun we have during this game! Of course, it’s a little modified when both boys are playing, but who doesn’t love slapping cards?!
5. HopScotch – The boys just discovered the fun of HopScotch this year and I rediscovered how fun it is!
6. Chutes and Ladders – I don’t think I even realized this as a kid playing this game, but Chutes and Ladders is a great way to teach about consequences! We talk about the pictures as they land on them and move up or down.
7. I Spy – Great game for in the car or sitting on the front step before bed time!
8. Rapelli – I think Big J is finally old enough to somewhat understand and enjoy this game where your roll the die and pull colorful caterpillars out. There is some strategy involved, so I’m excited to play it more with him as he gets older!
9. Kubit2Me – There are endless possibilities for this tossing game – letter games, number games, emotions and so on! I look forward to making up some addition and subtraction games using this for homeschool next year!
10. Kids Flag Page – This is a fabulous game from Family Matters, especially for children five and older. It really helped me understand Big J better! You can read my review here.
Now we need your ideas! What games does your family love to play together?
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I really haven’t played a lot of games with the kids yet. But we enjoy attempting Candy Land and we like memory matching games. Tristan likes some computer games, too. Just random ones we either find online or his teacher suggests. 🙂
Rapelli looks really interesting. (Those little critters are super cute!) We love games, but I’d never heard of Kids Flag Page. We may have to add to our game collection!
Oh, Hissss is a fun one for my little guy! We don’t usually play the game, but he likes matching the cards.
Also from the people who make Hisss – Frog Juice is a fun one. It’s simple math – adding up to 12. There are witches and spells and the like, which made me question it at first, but the game is not about the witches and spells. They are just the method the game makers chose to collect cards, which is the point of the game.
We like No Stress Chess (also by the same people, I think). It’s an easy way to teach kids the basics of chess. It does not teach strategy for moves, but that makes it more fun!
One for older kids -starting 9-10 years old, depending on math skills- is Cribbage. It’s only for 2-3 players at a time (although 3 is not as fun as 2), but we can spend hours playing.
We like Boggle Jr., Apples to Apples, Monopoly Jr., and The Cat in the Hat “I Can Do That!” game. 🙂
To name a few. 😉 Thanks for sharing. Some of these games I’ve never heard of before, but look super fun and educational!
We LOVE games! Apples to Apples, Monopoly, Domino’s! I actually did a post about how having no TV encourages us to play games 🙂
http://www.matternfamily.com/2011/04/do-you-game.html
I’ve never seen some of those. I am intrigued by the caterpillar game. I love that old wooden toy look.
The adults hijacked Don’t Break the Ice at Christmas. Love that game! In addition to yours above, we also play Crazy Eights, Go Fish, and the I Spy board game.
Coming late to the hop! What a GREAT post…I’m gonna have to look into several of these games! Rapelli looks really cool! And we already LOVE Chutes and Ladders, but your comments made me want to play it a little bit more thoughtfully!
Thanks for a great post…glad you linked up!
Linda